A New Year - stretching ahead. Daunting? Inspirational? Full of promise? So many ways of looking at it and yes, it's all of those for me and perhaps you too? On the first of January a friend asked me what my resolutions are. Oh goodness, I thought, I didn't have any - what are they? Actually turns out it's more of the same. Painting comes to mind first because my delight in and obsession with it continues unabated. But sometimes people think I'm big-headed because I love life so much, and so I want to say (or as our American friends say 'share') something. We artists are notoriously sensitive and like nearly all the ones I know I too have to guard against real or imagined criticism. For